{"product_id":"buoyant-paperback","title":"Buoyant - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eRebekah Bloyd\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Rebekah Bloyd takes us on a wide-ranging, hydrological journey: her words-solid, fluid, vaporous-traversing a 'globe without axis.' She invites us into a liquid suspension inspired by science, paintings, photographs, and her own personal history. Unexpected connections link grounded detail-desert quail, Caribbean parrot fish, a plastic toy diver, Venus reflecting through smoky air-with ethereal explorations of childhood wonder, human longing, and silly joy. Like her wild Santa Cruz mountain turkeys wandering a canyon, Bloyd's poems draw our rapt attention.\"-Ellen Orleans, author of Inside, The World Is Orange and Mother Blue \u0026amp; The Deep Down Under\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"To read this radiant collection is to dive right into the waters of our shared planet Earth. Whether responding to the behavior of water, the epidemic of gun violence, or a social media text, Bloyd examines the spiritual energies that both connect and separate us from the natural world and from one another. Filled with compassion and mystery, \u003cem\u003eBuoyant\u003c\/em\u003e is a multilingual conversation that ultimately leaves the reader transformed, hopeful, and delighted to have taken the plunge.\"--Caroline Goodwin, author of Madrigals and Old Snow, White Sun\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"From the first poem's kinetic opening, 'a field of children roars\/into a seascape\/swimming perpendicular' to the last poem's poignant ending, 'Handsome, her hand on the world\/burst\/open\/of its own accord' the reader encounters precise, surprising imagery and form.\u003cem\u003e Buoyant\u003c\/em\u003e entwines stark truths about our planet and our lives, what we have lost-species, habitats, lovers, family-with joy at what we still have. A haibun about the devastating Dixie Fire in California offers 'In the fine dirt of the campground's ring road ... bird tracks, loose-mesh patterns stamped.' In this beautiful, haunting collection, 'our planet is wide\/as earth eggs, soil grubs, caterpillar, beetle ... wide as cricket pulse\/under night skies satellite saturated.'\"--Judith Serin, author of Gravity and Hiding in the World\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 110\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.26 x 9 x 6 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e October 03, 2022\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42719704875071,"sku":"9781936671861","price":31.1,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0105\/8226\/1823\/files\/68422b6dea0c562cb8c24ff1c69e1f84.webp?v=1765086573","url":"https:\/\/dhlswag.com\/products\/buoyant-paperback","provider":"BBB","version":"1.0","type":"link"}